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January 14, 2010
Edwidge Danticat on Earthquake in Haiti 0
by Sonya Chung
Video of Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat talking about the earthquake in Haiti at Democracy Now.
January 14, 2010
Sleep Talkin’ Man 1
by Patrick Brown
“I can’t control the kittens. Too many whiskers! Too many whiskers!” A woman writes down everything her husband says in his sleep. Why isn’t this on Twitter? (via attackattack.tumblr.com)
January 14, 2010
The Great Book Purge of 2010 39
by Edan Lepucki
For about a year, the books in our apartment threatened to swallow my husband and me. Adding another bookcase, like adding another lane to an already clogged freeway, didn’t help–it only encouraged us to read more.
January 14, 2010
The Marble Faun: Hawthorne Feeds on Shadows 1
by Kevin Frazier
Has there ever been another writer of dark, morbid, surrealistic fiction who is as warm and humane as Nathaniel Hawthorne?
January 13, 2010
Avatar in Russia 0
by Ben Dooley
James Cameron just can’t win with the Reds. Not just the Chinese communists, but the Russians, as well, have taken issue with Avatar‘s politics.
January 13, 2010
Jason Epstein on Charlie Rose 0
by Emily Colette Wilkinson
Jason Epstein, editor of literary and culinary greats (Norman Mailer, Alice Waters), co-founder of the NYRB, and life-long food lover talks with Charlie Rose about his latest book, Eating: A Memoir, and the past and future of book publishing.
